Ellery Queen

Essay & Review by Cathy Akers-Jordan

Once upon an time there was a mystery writer whose character was so popular that a letter addressed to the character with just the character’s name and city would arrive at the author’s office. This character starred in books, short stories, public debates, movies, and radio, and even started a ground-breaking magazine that still exists today. Like Sherlock Holmes, some people assumed the character was a real person – yet today that character is not as well remembered as his contemporaries, like Father Brown and Lord Peter Wimsey. You now have all the clues, can you solve the puzzle of the character’s identity? read more